RIYADH, July 8, SPA -- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has donated $1.8
million
to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees
in the
Near East (UNRWA), bringing the total Saudi contributions to $60
million to
this UN agency.

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The Kingdom has also launched a project to
renovate and construct
more than
2,500 homes in collaboration with the UNRWA, said Karen Koning Abu
Zayed,
the UNRWA´s deputy commissioner general.

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In a statement released
from Amman yesterday, she said the UNRWA had
received two checks - one for $1.2 million and the other for
$600,000.

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The $1.2 million grant represents Saudi Arabia´s
regular contribution
to the
UN agency, but the additional amount represents part of a $2.4 million
contribution the Kingdom announced in 2000 it would pay to the UNRWA
over
four years.

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"This will help to relieve the suffering of nearly
four million
Palestinian
refugees," she was quoted as saying by Arab News in a report published
today.
--SPA